My first “real” job in my life was retail. I worked for Lord & Taylor in the late 70’s in New York. In fact, that is how I landed in Washington, DC in 1979, transferred to ‘the branches’ from the flagship NY store. That was a necessary step for all “executive trainees”. The idea was, you would serve time in the suburbs and return to NY as an assistant buyer who now understood the critical remote tentacles of the business.
This week was Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights and the beginning of a new year. I learned about this yesterday. We had a ceremony with a candle and some money. We were taught at the end to give the money away following the ceremony. The message was money and abundance will multiply and letting go is a catalyst for multiplication. Money is currency, it’s energy, it is meant to be circulated, it is not to be held, it is to be spent. Like the current in a river, it flows, energy circulates, it comes back, it continues to generate more energy and it is important to unblock it and keep it moving. It comes back to fuel our lives.